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The Undercover Soundtrack – Catherynne M Valente
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on June 12, 2012
'I look for clever, lyrical music with a twinge of melancholy'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to tap into a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week's post is by multi-award-winning author and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M Valente @catvalente
Soundtrack by Carl Sagan featuring Symphony of Science, Loreen, Ke$ha, Milla Jovovich, Yann Tiersen, Florence + the Machine, Mumford and Sons, The Decemberists, Anais Mitchell, Orenda Fink, Anna Ternheim, Pogo, Sufjan Stevens, Nobuo Uematsu, Tom Waits, Seanan McGuire, Andrew Bird, Circus Contraption, Antje Duvekot, The Innocence Mission, Rilo Kiley, Jason Webley, Neutral Milk Hotel, DJ Earworm, Ru Paul, Lady Gaga, S.J. Tucker
Exeunt on a leopard
Music and Fairyland go hand in hand. I can't write without music – it's an intimate part of my process. So often I start a novel by making a playlist for it, songs that say something about the subject and have a beat conducive to writing. Anything too aggressive and I get distracted, too soft and gentle and I get sleepy. There's very much a sweet spot to find! With the Fairyland novels, the playlist is called Exeunt on a Leopard and it evolves with every book.
Fairyland is a novel about travel and magic, about growing up, about figuring out the world is a more complicated place than you thought. It's whimsical but it has a bite. A lot of the songs I like to listen to seem like they could be sung in the voice of my protagonist, September, who is carried away from her home in Nebraska by the Green Wind (who rides a Leopard) and finds her way to Fairyland, a kingdom full of wyverns, witches, marauding herds of wild bicycles, and a very wicked Marquess who has inflicted some very human cruelties on the magical world. Fairyland is both an adventure story and a prodding—sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp—of the whole tradition of children's literature. So I look for clever, lyrical music with a twinge of melancholy – all stories about fairies have a little melancholy in them.
Song to start the muse
I start out every writing day with Symphony of Science's gorgeous song A Glorious Dawn. It makes me feel so optimistic about the world! After that, the heavy hitters are Florence + the Machine's new album Ceremonials, Mumford and Sons's Sigh No More, The Decemberists' Her Majesty and Picaresque, Anais Mitchell's folklore opera Hadestown, Orenda Fink's Invisible Ones, Anna Ternheim, especially Shoreline, which seemed to be just written for September, Pogo's Alice songs, Sufjan Stevens's Illinoise and Michigan albums, Nobuo Uematsu's phenomenal soundtrack to Final Fantasy VII and VIII, Tom Waits's sad and sweet musical version of Allen Ginsberg's poem America, Seanan McGuire's Hugo-nominated album Wicked Girls, the title track of which actually makes a quick, subtle cameo in the climactic scene of the novel, Andrew Bird's Scythian Empire, Circus Contraption's melancholy carnival album Grand American Traveling Dime Museum, Antje Duvekot's Black Annis, Yann Tiersen's fabulous music wherever I find it, The Innocence Mission for a little early 90s awesomeness, Rilo Kiley, Milla Jovovich's surprisingly lovely song Clock, Jason Webley's Ways to Love, Neutral Milk Hotel's King of Carrot Flowers and In an Aeroplane Over the Sea.
When writing scenes heavy on action, I will admit with only a little blushing that I like some cheesy club pop music – DJ Earworm's mashups that remind you how meaning can be so fluid, Ru Paul's Glamazon, Lady Gaga's Fame Monster album, Ke$ha's Tik Tok (there's a strong clock theme in Fairyland!) and I'm completely in love with Loreen's Eurovision winner Euphoria as I'm working on the third book in the Fairyland series. Sometimes the silly stuff makes me feel free to be ridiculous and whimsical in my work–not everything has to be serious and elegant all the time. This is an important lesson for a fantasy writer, I think.
Finally, I can't talk about Fairyland and music without mentioning S.J. Tucker. She's an extraordinary singer, and I have her last two albums Sirens and Mischief on a loop when working. But she's also done three albums based on my books, and a fourth, based on Fairyland, will be coming out soon. So I listen to September's Rhyme and Wonders quite a bit–they remind me what I mean to say with my books, and why I started this whole crazy business to begin with.
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton Award, the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award and the Lambda Award. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and enormous cat. She blogs at yuki-onna.livejournal.com and tweets @catvalente
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Climber Hugh Herr Honored by Esquire Magazine
Who knew that a climber's accident and desire to return to his sport would some day benefit wounded soldiers?Hugh Herr, once a leading climber, appeared in Esquire's recent theme Genius Issue, credited for being at the forefront of the prosthetics field.
Who knew that a climber's accident and desire to return to his sport would some day benefit wounded soldiers?
Hugh Herr, once a leading climber, appeared in Esquire's recent theme Genius Issue, credited for being at the forefront of the prosthetics field.
Prosthetic innovation is always dominant during and immediately following a war, Herr said. About 600 soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have lost limbs, he said.
Herr, 42, has visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center three times, and will begin working with Iraq vets this spring. An associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, he directs the lab's Biomechatronics Group, which has developed the Rheo Knee, a biohybrid merging synthetics with the proximal human part. The Rheo Knee uses a microprocessor to learn a user's gait, and respond to changes in speed, weight loading and terrain. Hundreds of knees have been sold, including a number to injured soldiers, some of whom have even returned to the war zone on them.
Herr knows his field all too well. At 17, he was considered one of the best rock climbers on the East Coast. For the spring 1982 he had hoped to free the Shawangunks aid route Twilight Zone, potentially harder than anything yet done at the New York area. In January, however, he and a friend climbed the ice route Odell Gully (WI 3) on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in blizzard conditions and became lost. Three days later they were rescued, but both suffered amputations due to frostbite. Hugh lost his lower legs from four inches below the knee. Worse, they learned that a rescuer, Albert Dow, had died searching for them.
Always gifted with great powers of concentration, Hugh learned to climb again, both by physical application and tinkering with his artificial feet with increasing levels of sophistication. He put up the first ascents of Condemned Man (5.12 R), Vandals (5.13) and Sticky Bun Power (5.12 R) in the Gunks; as well as the FAs of Fortitude (5.12 R) and Stage Fright (5.12c X), North Conway. (He climbed Stage Fright ground up, only rappelling to retrieve gear; just three other climbers are known to have led the route since, none matching the style.) Herr also succeeded on the second free ascent of City Park (5.13c), Index, Washington.
Struck by the lack of refinement in lower-limb prostheses, he began to study biology and engineering on his own. He enrolled in college, which led to graduate study at MIT.
While Herr's goals were once rooted in climbing, today they involve developing implants that communicate with the nervous system, and biohybrid limbs that move like biological ones and even attach to bone.
So how did he feel about being called a genius? Herr jokes, It's about time.

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. Cheese store in Lenk - Molkerei "Chäs Spycher"
Both places sell extremely cheap, regional and mouthwatering artisan cheeses.
All three pictures were submitted to "Black & White Wednesday", an event created by Susan at "The Well-Seasoned Cook".
Stunning as always Rosa. Love your beautiful new header photos too.
Wow! Le noir et blanc va tellement bien à ce morceau de fromage. Magnifique!ReplyDelete
Les berthes à lait sont tout aussi jolies. Tu devrais donner des cours de photos.ReplyDelete
what a large list of cheese specialities (I've read it on the second mirrored picture)ReplyDelete
Coming to visit you virtually after ages and like the way your blog looks.
Love the pictures too especially the first and last one. The shadows in the last one and the sepia tones create a nice mood. And the treatment in the first is just perfect suggesting a period look. Is that a museum?
APARNA: Thanks so much! It is not a museum, but a real farm... Such scenes are still visible in certain parts of Switzerland. ;-PReplyDelete
I agree your black and whites are always stunning:)ReplyDelete
J'aime les trois mais le traitement de la premiere est surprenant, fait vraiment ressortir les objets.
Beau travail encore une fois.
Quel heureuse série! Et ô combien j'aimerais toucher, sentir et goûter!ReplyDelete
I'm mesmerized by that first image, Rosa. The depth is amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing...
Bernese Oberland looks so exotic in these black and white beautiful photos! I haven't had raclette for ages...ReplyDelete
We're finally having a cool day--raclette sounds perfect! Love the sign and cheeses in black and white.ReplyDelete
Wow, I love the new look, Rosa!!
And as usual, stunning Wordless Wednesdays photos. :)
I absolutely love the first photo. It is what the small town in the Alps are all about, grass grazing cows, their milk, and the cheese made with it. Lovely containers let to dry in the sun. I hope this old craft will never disappear.
I love the new look of your blog. I want to change my template, the space for the post text is too small and the pictures can't be added extra large. I wish I were more web site savy.
Lovely, Rosa! Happy Black and White Wednesday!ReplyDelete
P.S. I like your new blog look. :-)ReplyDelete
I wished I had your talent for food photography. We love raclette. We usually make one at home every winter with lot's of wine :)ReplyDelete
tous les détails ressortent c'est mieux que la couleur !!!
la pâte du fromage sent bon, est bien moelleuse !!!
incroyable, Rosa c'est beau !!! et bon !!!
Your new header is great! I like your new look. Stunning black and white photos as always.ReplyDelete
Un délicieux fromage d'actualité avec le froid qui arrive vive les raclettes
Je te souhaite une belle soirée
beautiful new header ;;)ReplyDelete
Beautiful as always!ReplyDelete
the first photo is incredibly beautiful. i would print it out and put it in the kitchen wall.
Pretty photos, Rosa. I love the hue in pic 1.ReplyDelete
STUNNING!!! so many great shots!!ReplyDelete
I love black and white pictures everything look so unrealistic.
I'm envious of your skill! Gorgeous photos.ReplyDelete
Love that first picture Rosa!ReplyDelete
Incredibly beautiful photos... :DReplyDelete
Rosa, ,loving the new look of your blog :) As u know am in a vacation and hardly get any access to Internet!
Such gorgeous photos and love the dark edit.
All photos are great.My favuorite this week is the firstone..so vintage;)ReplyDelete
Great shots as always!ReplyDelete
First I want to say that I love the new look of your blog, Rosa! Well done :) Gorgeous black and white Wednesday. That last pic...simply gorgeous!
Oh how wonderful photos, mmmm raclette!
Cheese stores for me are like candy stores for kids, well not only for kids lol!
Rosa, I love what you are sharing today - amazing light and colors...ReplyDelete
Very rustic and charmingly good shots :DReplyDelete
oh the rustic charm! I love it! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Really great Wednesday photos!ReplyDelete
superbes photos Rosa !! :)ReplyDelete
Le fromage à raclette ... un vrai délice !
Jolie la nouvelle déco de ton blog ;-)
beautifully composed nice treatement :)ReplyDelete
Lovely pictures, especially that first one -- I feel as though I could jump right in!ReplyDelete
Great black and white...like the first one with blue filter.ReplyDelete
Such interesting photos; you definitely have the photographer's eye and know how to capture interesting shots and unusual angles; interesting that first one with the filter.ReplyDelete
Warmth...charm...and inspiration has been appreciated from looking at your latest captures.
Your talent in photography certainly shine here Rosa.
Have a great weekend.
Ciao for now,
Beautiful! I'd love to visit those cheese places, maybe some day! :)ReplyDelete
Rosa I love this black and white look georgeous ! gloria
I love your photography! x gloria
I so love this fantastic wednesday pictures. They are so professional, gorgeous and meaningful!!!!
Congratulations as they are really tremendous!
Je decouvre ce blog avec grand plaisir!!! Les photos sont splendides!! Bonne soirée.ReplyDelete
Awesome black & whites!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, stylish and inspiring photos...so happy I found your blog! Now I think I need to go nosh some cheese!ReplyDelete
i'm beginning to look forward to B&W Wednesdays now.
Love the new banner; I remember that cake very well!
Beautiful as ever Rosa n I loved the new neat look of your space, especially the stunning header!
I like the new look! So fun!ReplyDelete
Beautiful blog, beautiful photos! So glad I stumbled on this!ReplyDelete
Love these wondrous shots, Rosa. :-) Black and white is such a peaceful medium for photography, and it never fails to delight me.ReplyDelete
Stunning photos. Just love them.ReplyDelete
Is that a sink? I love all of the jugs!ReplyDelete
Wow! Gorgeous composition and hues of B&W :)ReplyDelete
Lovely black and white images! The cheese looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Glad to see you back and well rested Rosa! This post is breathtaking & I would love a big piece of that cake :)ReplyDelete


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President Barack Obama is expected to tighten restrictions on U.S. spying on foreign leaders and also is considering changes in National Security Agency access to Americans' phone records, according to people familiar with a White House review of the nation's surveillance programs.
Obama could unveil his highly anticipated decisions as early as next week. Ahead of that announcement, he is consulting with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials who were invited to White House meetings Wednesday and Thursday.
"He's at that stage still where he's listening and discussing with a variety of stakeholders and appreciates very much the opinions and counsel he's getting on this matter," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Among the changes Obama is expected to announce is more oversight of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, a classified document that ranks U.S. intelligence- gathering priorities and is used to make decisions on scrutiny of foreign leaders. A presidential review board recommended increasing the number of policy officials who help establish those priorities, and that could result in limits on surveillance of allies.
Documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. was monitoring the communications of several friendly foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The revelations outraged Merkel as well as other leaders, and U.S. officials say the disclosures have damaged Obama's relations around the world.
Obama and Merkel spoke by phone Wednesday, but U.S. officials would not say whether they discussed the NSA issues.
The president also is said to be considering one of the review board's most aggressive recommendations, a proposal to strip the NSA of its ability to store telephone records from millions of Americans and instead have phone companies or a third party hold the records. The NSA would be able to access the records only by obtaining separate court approval for each search, though exceptions could be made for emergency national security matters.
It's unclear whether Obama will ultimately back the proposal or how quickly it could be carried out if he does.
Before making his final decisions, the president was supposed to receive a separate report from a semi-independent commission known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which was created by Congress. However, that panel's report has been delayed without explanation until at least late January, meaning it won't reach the president until after he makes his decisions public.
Members of that oversight board did meet with Obama on Wednesday and have briefed other administration officials on some of their preliminary findings. In a statement, the five-member panel said its meeting with the president focused on the NSA phone collection program and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees the data sweeps.
It's unclear why Obama will announce his recommendations before receiving the report from the privacy and civil liberties board. One official familiar with the review process said that some White House officials were puzzled by the board's delay. But the official said the report probably would still have strong weight in Congress, where legislators are grappling with several bills aimed at dismantling or preserving the NSA's authority.
That official and those familiar with the White House review insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the process by name.
Obama also met at the White House Wednesday with members of the U.S. intelligence community, which largely supports keeping the NSA surveillance programs intact. On Thursday, the president will meet with members of Congress, while his top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, will meet with representatives from privacy groups.
Shortly after receiving the review board recommendations last month, Obama signaled that he could be open to significant surveillance changes, including to the bulk collecting of phone records.
"There are ways we can do it, potentially, that gives people greater assurance that there are checks and balances – that there's sufficient oversight and sufficient transparency," Obama said during a Dec. 20 news conference. He added that programs like the bulk collection "could be redesigned in ways that give you the same information when you need it without creating these potentials for abuse."
The president also has backed the idea of adding a public advocate position to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which rules on many of the domestic surveillance decisions. The court typically hears only from the government as it decides cases and the advocate would be added to represent privacy and civil liberties concerns.
That review followed disclosures from Snowden, the former government contractor, who leaked details of several secret government programs. Snowden faces espionage charges in the U.S., but has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.
While Obama has said he welcomes the review, it's unlikely it would have occurred without Snowden's disclosures.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Rhode Island House is poised to debate and vote on legislation that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry – the first time the issue has gone to a legislative floor vote in the only New England state without same-sex marriage.
Supporters and opponents of the legislation expect it to easily pass the House on Thursday, led by House Speaker Gordon Fox, who is gay. Both sides say the true test of the legislation lies in the Senate, where Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed opposes the legislation.
Gay marriage legislation has been introduced every year in the General Assembly since 1997, but Thursday's vote will mark the first time the issue has received a vote in either the House or Senate.
The bill has 42 sponsors in the 75-member House – an indication of just how easily it could pass. The bill's longtime sponsor, Rep. Art Handy, D-Cranston, said he's seen a widespread change of opinion on gay marriage and that even some previously staunch opponents in the legislature may give the bill a second thought when the roll is called.
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Supporters are hoping to build on national momentum following the votes in Maine, Maryland and Washington. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, voters rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have prohibited gay marriage, the first time such a ballot question has failed in the United States.
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Study suggests new approach to dengue fever
Dengue fever may be more than three times more prevalent than current estimates, according to a new report.
The study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford in England, estimates there are 390 million dengue infections around the world each year. Currently, the World Health Organization puts the number between 50 and 100 million infections each year. Researchers hope their findings will help pinpoint parts of the world most vulnerable to dengue fever and develop strategies to treat it.
Dengue fever is passed from person to person by mosquitos. Unlike malaria, there are no drugs you can take to avoid getting it. It also is difficult to treat and thus far, attempts to develop a vaccine have been unsuccessful.
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It is most common in Asia and India, but more cases have been popping up in the Caribbean and Latin America in recent years. In mild cases, dengue fever causes a high fever, rash and joint and muscle pain. In extreme cases, it can cause death. According to the World Health Organization, about 12,000 people die of dengue fever each year. Many of them are children.
For this research, a team of international experts developed a statistical model based on things like temperature, humidity and even newspaper reports, to figure out where dengue was most likely to show up. Then, they combined that information to develop a map, down to precise 5-by-5 kilometer regions where outbreaks were most likely to occur.
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But some experts take issue with the study's numbers and say the estimate is too high.
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He points out the numbers for Africa. "A disease resistance gene in Africa has been well established, which suggests the disease burden in Africa is overestimated," says Halstead.
The study is published in the current edition of the journal Nature.
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TNB: Flash Floods, Climbers and How to Get Out of the Way
What happens when you are climbing in an area that is vulnerable to flash floods and then the worst happens?
Bill Ohran was one of the first people to start bolting routes in Maple Canyon, Utah, and over many years he's seen
its corridors fill up a few inches during a rainstorm. Misty Murphy, his wife and another Maple regular, has heard people talk about flash floods in
the area, especially Box Canyon, and has also seen water run through.
"But this," Murphy says of a recent deluge, "was something else."
On the last weekend of July, the two, from Gunlock, Utah, joined four friends in Box Canyon, and at first only shrugged when hit by a bit of rain, as had
happened the day before.
"I expected it to pass over," Murphy recalls. The climbers stowed their gear under an overhang and waited.
"Then it was hailing hard, it hurt, then hailing and raining at the same time, and it was going for a good 20 minutes when you started hearing waterfalls
forming," she says. "And we said"—she mocks herself—"'Oh look at that, look at the pretty waterfall.'"
The other climbers—Randy Leavitt, Jeff Pederson, Arash Aalam and Louise Botham—moved deftly up fourth-class terrain to a cave, but Murphy and
Ohran had two dogs, who couldn't get there.
"Then we started hearing rocks being dislodged above us, [from] all over the canyon," she says. The cobbles, some large, were washing down from atop the
200-foot cliffs. "Then there were sheets of water and waterfalls everywhere. And eventually water started trickling down like I've seen before, a couple
inches deep. We packed our stuff and said, 'OK, it's not going to stop, we'll make a break for it.'
"There was more water and more water and more water, and I looked at Bill and said, 'Are we all right?'"
Then she saw a brownish wave: "I can only describe it as a wall of water. I looked up the canyon 100 yards, it was two feet deep and coming at us, and
I didn't know what was behind that."
two started running. "It caught up and by then it was two or three feet, and I was just running to the mouth of the canyon on cobbles. You can't see
the cobbles, and with wet shoes and wet dogs"—she laughs—"I can't believe I didn't break my ankle."
She and Ohran reached the mouth of the canyon, and then had to cross another flow of water, coming from the main canyon.
"This thing was five feet," she says. "It was insane. Anyway, we made it out of there. We were completely soaked and covered in mud."
Asked what she felt at the time, she says, "I was seriously scared. Water is powerful. I have respect for water. Especially when it's moving!"
The next day Murphy returned to the site, because she had lost her dog bowl. A few inches of water still moved over the floor. She also saw burned tree
trunks there. They had been loosened in the fire that razed the canyon last year, and washed down from the cliff tops.
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About 10 miles from my town of Carbondale, Colorado, is a backcountry climbing area in a sandy wash above Thompson Creek, where a few dozen sport climbs
line a fin of limestone. The approach to the crag, which is known as Lower Thompson Creek, is maybe 20 or 25 minutes on a popular trail alongside the
gently descending creek bed. Around a bend, a right-angle turnoff, easy to miss, gains a loose climbers' trail upward. The routes appear after a few
minutes' steep hike up dirt and rocks, and those highest up the gully take five or 10 minutes to reach.
I've had my moments in Thompson Creek. Three years ago in this gully I got hit by a boulder knocked off from the other side of that 40- or 50-foot gully,
and if I haven't told you about it before, I will again, since I point that 80-pound rock out to everyone I ever go there with.
Local climbers are well aware that rain in the area turns the clay-like back road to the trailhead into thick, greasy gumbo, so if showers are due you
either avoid the place or take a 4WD vehicle. But I have to admit the idea of a flash flood never occurred to me.
Until, that is, a day last summer when I started up the climbers' trail, and couldn't believe the changed landscape.
trash-can-sized boulders and fallen tree trunks lay across the way. A dark gap, showing layers of strata, had opened up underfoot in one spot. Clumps
of leaves and dried mud braided the pockmarked and graveled corridor. A flood had clearly torn by. The rock that hit me, thick as a sofa pillow, which
formerly just sat on the trail, was now as smoothly embedded as a tile in a garden path. Curious, I asked around a bit in the next few days, and heard
that two friends, Collette Newell and Mary Lewis, had been there when it happened, and had had an "epic" getting out. The two are longtime mountain
athletes, seven-year partners (with four podium finishes among women overall, and a win in women's age 25-35) in the Grand Traverse, a 40-plus
mile ski-mountaineering race between Crested Butte and Aspen.
The two had been high in the gully (one other party was there as well that day, but situated lower), with Lewis on the wall, when they heard thunder.
"We couldn't see the storm," Newell recalls, "but I wasn't worried, it wasn't over us and sounded far away. We thought we'd just finish this one climb
and get out."
They joked about climbing faster, and when rain began sprinkling, said, "OK, time to move on," and packed up.
"By the time we started down, it started raining quite hard," Newell continues, "then it started hailing. [The hailstones] were big and they hurt. I put
my coat on, but Mary just had her tank top. We put our helmets on. It was pinging off us.
"It started flooding, rocks were starting to move. Water was rushing by. I've never seen anything like that happen so quickly."
Water flowed to their ankles as the two descended to the creek-side path, and the storm surged right above, thunder booming and echoing off the walls.
"By the time we got on the trail we would step into these big puddles that were over my knees, the ground was so saturated."
As the two headed out along the ascending trail, boulders released from above them, rolling past. "We would see them coming and run to a safe spot."
They alternated between stopping to hide under a tree or behind a rock, and hurrying to the next point.
"It was scary, an intense sensory overload of the storm, lightning, water and hail," Newell says. "Mary and I have been through so much together…
on peaks in Peru and getting lost on skis and touring. But that was one for the memory banks."
Many climbing areas are vulnerable to effects of rain. Six years ago flash floods killed four Israeli rock climbers (three men and a woman, all in their
20s) in the canyons above the Dead Sea. A YouTube video taken in Escalante, Utah, shows a thundering torrent that developed in six minutes, beginning a
moment after the last person, a guide for a group of climbers/canyoneers, rappelled in its path. This riveting video (see below) from July of last year shows a pounding flood in Spry Canyon on a day, the preface states, when the chance of showers had been given as 50 percent. The two climbers have been off their rappel for three minutes (one of them checked his watch) when it hits. They escape up into an alcove, and watch the swirling waters rise to five or six feet, with the next anchor one to two feet underwater. "I hope those people below are OK," one worries. An hour later, water is still running.
In the case of a flash flood, the baseline rule is to seek higher ground, and not try to outrun it. In gaining high ground climbers may have both an advantage
(ability) and disadvantage (walls too steep and difficult for a quick escape). Collette Newell says that if the flood had happened any faster, her first
thought would have been to cross to the canyon's other side, formed of dirt and slabby rock, though that side is problematical for being loose and chossy.
Try to be aware of which areas are sensitive to water threat. Consider escape options.
Nick Wilkes of Zion Adventures, who posted the Spry Canyon video, writes on the company's blog that weather forecasts may not matter much: "If you are
going into a canyon with questionable, cloud-scattered skies overhead, you'd best be in a canyon where escape is frequently possible. Even in Spry, where
escaping the drainage IS often possible, you can get into deep trouble if you are caught in the wrong spot."
Another great idea in a storm is to vamoose early.
Here is info on flash floods from weather.com:
Surviving A Flash Flood
You may have only seconds to escape.
If you suspect a flash flood is about to happen, immediately climb to higher ground.
Remember, it does not have to be raining for a flash flood to occur. Some of the most dangerous floods originate many miles away.
Surviving A Flood
If on foot, do not attempt to walk through floodwaters. Instead, turn around and go directly to higher ground.
Make sure to keep children and pets away from floodwaters, storm drains, and sewers.
If you are in a car, drive away from flooded areas. Never try to take a shortcut through them.
If your car stalls, immediately abandon it and climb to higher ground.
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Windows 8 has arrived, and with it, we released a comprehensive set of stories covering all angles of its elements in our Deep Dive. Peter Bright found that the OS compromises quite a bit, and Andrew Cunningham clocked it for performance. Here in the OpenFourm, Ars Readers are also tackling Windows 8 in the thread, "Windows 8 Discussion (And it's here!)". This thread contains more than 2,000 posts, and you'll find it's a comprehensive read that dates back to mid-September of 2011, when users were still speculating about Windows 8.
The change in UI is an issue that is central to the discussion of Windows 8. Users like XX55XX find that despite flaws, it works for them: "As for the "new interface", Microsoft needs to make it easier to close applications for us mice and keyboard users (come on, wouldn't an "x" in the corner hurt so much?). Furthermore, the OS has so much left to right scrolling that it is sometimes disorienting to look at after a while—you just don't know where you are. An easy way to rectify this would be to encourage developers to include tabs at the top that lead to different menus or pages. On the Start screen, it would also help to create "buffers" between groups of tiles so that it's like you are moving from page to page… I like the new interface, it just needs some further refinement so that it works well on both touch screens and with a mouse and keyboard."
Even earlier in the month, as the release date grew closer, DarkReality's hopes were not set high, "Windows 8 doesn't seem, to me at least, to be intended to appeal to any group whose members are traditionally older than third graders. I mean, Metro/Modern looks like something that would be great in a classroom, in the 1980s, when computer literacy was not a given. I can't imagine a lot of professionals, artists, gamers, or computer hobbyists are eagerly anticipating the 26th of October."
Mark Havel calls Windows 8 "Windows 7 with a touch-friendly interface," while Wundan Master replies "and Windows 7 is Vista with a better display model." However, other users in the thread have found the user experience more original.
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As you read through the thread, you'll find very useful technical questions answered as users share their experiences installing on various setups. You can also find out what subtle changes in keystrokes have changed in the new UI. If your issue is not addressed in the thread, you can also post a question to get help from other users.
And what about the controversy over the missing start menu from Windows 8? Fuzzmz takes precautions: "Went ahead an finally moved my main machine over to Windows 8 Professional. The only thing I dislike so far is the solid title title bars (no transparency) but I know I'll get used to it. I also went and bought Start8 just in case I find I miss the old start menu too much."
Contextfree adds, "The Start screen is intended to be the main switcher as well as launcher, same as on iOS. alt-tab, the switcher on the left side, etc. are more like shortcuts for advanced users, not the primary way of switching apps. Using the start screen is actually more efficient most of the time because things are in more predictable places—the same principle behind the Windows 7 taskbar or the Mac OS dock—whereas with the left-edge switcher or alt-tab you'll have to scan the list to see if/where the one you want is there."
Genome, who presumably is going to upgrade, says, "Right, see you on the other side, folks."
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Francis "Coyote" Shivers, a musician who appeared in the 1995 movie Empire Records, allegedly showed up at a sushi restaurant in Hollywood where Perrette and her current fiancé were having dinner, and an argument broke out.
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Officials: Panetta opens combat roles to women
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the military's ban on women serving in combat, a move that will allow women into hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando units, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.
Women currently serve in a number of combat positions, including piloting warplanes or serving on ships in combat areas. Since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 292,000 women have served in those combat zones out of a total of almost 2.5 million, Pentagon records show. In both wars, 152 women have died from combat or noncombat causes, records show, and 958 have been wounded in action.
The move will be announced officially Thursday afternoon by Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the official, who spoke anonymously because Panetta had not yet made the announcement.
Pentagon policy restricting women from serving in combat on the ground was modified in 1994, according to the Congressional Research Service. Women cannot be assigned below the brigade level -- a unit of about 3,500 troops -- to fight on the ground. Effectively, that has barred women from infantry, artillery, armor, combat engineers and special operations units of battalion size -- about 700 troops -- or lower.
The services will have until January 2016 to implement the changes, the official said. Last year, Panetta opened up an additional 15,000 jobs to women. He ordered the remaining exclusions lifted because he had been committed to doing so since taking office, the official said.
The chiefs of the services unanimously support the change in policy, the defense official said.
The move comes as Panetta prepares to leave office. President Obama has nominated Republican former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Vietnam combat veteran, to take his place.
The policy change requires notifying Congress, which must have 30 days to consider it.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and Iraq war veteran, criticized the announcement, saying "it is totally out of left field. Completely."
"The question you've got to ask yourself every single time you make a change like this is: Does it increase the combat effectiveness of the military?...I think the answer is no," Hunter said.
Military services may seek special exceptions to the new policy if they believe any positions must remain closed to women.
The official said the services will develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions. Some jobs may open as soon as this year. Assessments for others, such as special operations forces, including Navy SEALs and the Army's Delta Force, may take longer.
Each service will be charged with developing policies to integrate women into every military job. For instance, the defense official said, it's likely the Army will establish a set of physical requirements for infantry soldiers. The candidate, man or woman, will have to lift a certain amount of weight in order to qualify. The standards will be gender neutral.
The official said the military chiefs must report back to Panetta with their initial implementation plans by May 15.
This decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women.
In recent years, the necessities of war propelled women into jobs as medics, military police and intelligence officers that were sometimes attached — but not formally assigned — to units on the front lines.
Women make up 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel.
Changing the policy will cause few problems, the official said. A few troops won't like it, the official said, but most have seen women deployed and accept it already. It's likely to have the same effect as the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy that allowed gays and lesbians to serve but required them to hide their sexuality.
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Business leaders and labor union officials are delving into high-stakes negotiations over a particularly contentious element of immigration reform — a guest worker program to ensure future immigrants come here legally.
The issue has traditionally divided labor and business. Labor groups have looked askance on bringing in numerous low-wage workers, while that's an outcome businesses have favored.
The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have been tasked by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York with reaching a deal, within weeks, that Schumer and a bipartisan Senate group on immigration could incorporate into legislation now taking shape, officials say.
Both sides appear hopeful, although Schumer and others say the issue scuttled the last attempt at a comprehensive overhaul of immigration law in 2007.
The guest worker issue has emerged as a split between the Senate negotiating group and President Barack Obama, who omitted any such program from his immigration proposals, drawing criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a key negotiator on the Republican side. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama wants to ensure that any such program protects workers and "is actually based on data-driven workforce demands, rather than political whim."
Labor and business leaders were to meet with Obama at the White House on Tuesday in separate sessions to discuss immigration reform and how it fits into the broader economic picture.
Officials on both sides of the guest worker negotiations are hopeful of a positive result, partly because all involved agree on the necessity of addressing what's called "future flow" — the influx of migrants to the U.S. that's sure to come whether or not Congress passes an immigration bill.
If Congress does act to provide a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country, it's just as important to deal with future immigration, advocates say. Otherwise, some time from now the country will once again find itself home to many more illegal immigrants.
"We're at a point where we have to take that issue really seriously and think about what kind of a system do we want to have in place so that 10 years from now, 15 years from now, we're not in the same situation," said Ana Avendano, assistant to the AFL-CIO president for immigration and community action.
The Chamber of Commerce "views the existence of a temporary worker program as vital to a comprehensive immigration bill," spokeswoman Blair Latoff Holmes said in a statement.
A major criticism of the 1986 immigration law signed by President Ronald Reagan, which offered legalization to some 3 million illegal immigrants, was that it did not deal with the issue of future immigration — allowing today's problems to emerge.
The U.S. does have several temporary worker programs already, but they're viewed as cumbersome and outdated, and experts say the majority of migrant workers in agricultural and other low-skill fields like landscaping or housekeeping are illegal.
For business and labor, the question is how to come to an agreement on how many workers to let in and under what circumstances, how much they would be paid, and whether and how they would be able to attain eventual permanent residency, the critical step toward citizenship.
"Few aspects of immigration law are so divisive in terms of where the two sides stand," said Demetrios Papademetriou, head of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
That institute and others have proposed creation of a permanent commission that would make recommendations about where and when workers are needed, an idea said to be under consideration as the business and labor groups negotiate.
The bipartisan Senate group has outlined parameters that would allow employers to hire immigrants if they could show they couldn't find an American for the job, and would respond to economic conditions by allowing more immigrants into the country at times of low unemployment, and fewer when unemployment is high.a


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US added a meager 88,000 jobs in March
WASHINGTON — A streak of robust job growth came to a halt in March, signaling that U.S. employers may have grown cautious in a fragile economy.The gain of 88,000 jobs was the smallest in nine months. Even a decline in unemployment to a four-year low of 7.6 percent was nothing to cheer: It fell only because more people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.Friday's weak jobs report from the Labor Department caught analysts by surprise and served as a reminder that the economic recovery is still slow, nearly four years after the Great Recession ended."This is not a good report through and through," Dan Greenhaus, at brokerage firm BTIG, said in a note to clients.Economists had no single explanation for why hiring weakened so sharply and broadly — from retailers and manufacturers to electronics and building materials companies. Some said deep government spending cuts that began taking effect March 1 might have contributed to the slowdown, along with higher Social Security taxes. Others raised the possibility that last month was just a pause in an improving job market.Whatever the reasons, slower job growth will extend the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping borrowing costs at record lows.March's job gain was less than half the average of 196,000 jobs in the previous six months, raising the prospect that for the fourth straight spring, the economy and hiring could show strength early in the year, only to weaken later. Some economists say weak hiring may persist into summer before rebounding by fall.The percentage of working-age Americans with a job or looking for one fell to 63.3 percent in March, the lowest such figure in nearly 34 years.The Labor Department uses a survey of mostly large businesses and government agencies to determine how many jobs are added or lost each month. That's the survey that produced the gain of 88,000 jobs for March.The government uses a separate survey of households to calculate the unemployment rate. It counted 290,000 fewer people as unemployed — not because they found a job but because they stopped looking for one.The percentage of working-age adults with a job or looking for one is a figure that economists call the participation rate. It's the lowest since 1979. Normally during an economic recovery, an expanding economy lures job seekers back into the labor market. But this time, many have stayed on the sidelines, and more have joined them.Longer-term trends have helped keep the participation rate down. The baby boomers have begun to retire. The share of men 20 and older in the labor force has dropped as manufacturing has shrunk.After expanding from the early 1950s through the mid-1990s, the share of women working or looking for work has plateaued. Fewer teenagers are working. And some people who have left the job market are getting by on government aid, particularly Social Security's program for the disabled.Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said the labor force participation among those ages 25 to 54 — "prime age" workers — has dropped to 81.1 percent. It hasn't been lower since 1984.Gary Burtless, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, noted that some Americans have likely stopped looking for work because their unemployment benefits have run out. People must be looking for a job to qualify for unemployment benefits."If people aren't collecting benefits, they have one less reason to be out pounding the pavement looking for a job," Burtless said.If the economy slows this spring, it would follow the pattern of recent years.An intensifying European financial crisis depressed hiring in 2010. Japan's earthquake and tsunami also disrupted U.S. manufacturing in 2011. Last year, an unusually warm winter caused employers to do more hiring early in the year, cutting into hiring that normally happens in spring.This year's steep government spending cuts could have the same effect. But some economists say they expect any weakening this spring to be milder. The economy has a stronger foundation now. Rising home prices and near-record-level stock prices are making consumers feel wealthier and spend more."The recovery is on much better footing this year than in the last few springs, and the recovery in the housing market will do much to support growth," said Sophia Koropeckyj, an economist at Moody's Analytics.Economists also cautioned against reading too much into a one-month slowdown in hiring.Friday's report also showed hiring was stronger in January and February than previously estimated. January job growth was revised up from 119,000 to 148,000. February was revised from 236,000 to 268,000.Those revised totals suggest that some hiring might have again occurred earlier in the year than usual. Job gains have averaged 168,000 in the past three months, close to the trend of the past two years.The Fed has said it plans to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent — and Chairman Ben Bernanke has said a 6.5 percent rate is a threshold, not a "trigger," for any rate increase. The Fed wants to see sustained improvement in the job market.Several industries cut back sharply on hiring. Retailers cut 24,000 jobs, manufacturers 3,000 jobs.Some economists said retailers might have held back on hiring in part because March was colder than normal. That likely meant that Americans bought fewer spring clothes and less garden equipment.Fred Whyte, president of Stihl Inc., which makes chainsaws, lawn trimmers and other equipment, said the Virginia Beach, Va.-based company has benefited from the housing recovery and is looking to fill about 130 jobs, including engineers, machinists and software programmers.With home sales rising, more people are willing to spend money to spruce up their yards, Whyte said. Commercial developers are spending more on landscaping.But Whyte said the company has heard complaints from retailers that cold weather in March was holding down sales.The oil and gas industry has been adding jobs fast over the past several years but cut jobs in March for the first time in 2 1/2 years. Oil drilling and exploration is booming, but low natural gas prices over the last year have made natural gas drilling in some areas unprofitable.In March, average hourly pay rose a penny, the smallest gain in five months. Average pay is just 1.8 percent higher than a year earlier, trailing the pace of inflation, which rose 2 percent in the past 12 months.Most analysts think the economy strengthened from January through March, helped by the pickup in hiring, a sustained housing recovery and steady consumer spending. Consumers stepped up purchases in January and February, even after Social Security taxes rose this year.At the same time, some small businesses say they've grown more cautious about hiring. The government spending cuts could cut into sales at companies with federal contracts and at small retailers located near government facilities. And small business owners worry about increased health insurance costs next year, when the government's health care overhaul is fully implemented.As federal agencies and contractors cut back in coming months, Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, expects job growth to average 100,000 to 150,000 a month, down from an average 212,000 from December through February. He expects hiring to pick up after mid-year."The good news," Behravesh said, "is that this is happening at a time when the private economy is gaining momentum."


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Today in the News: Trayvon Martin texts released
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"Is the defense trying to prove Trayvon deserved to be killed by George Zimmerman because the way he looked? If so, this stereotypical and closed-minded thinking is the same mindset that caused George Zimmerman to get out of his car and pursue Trayvon, an unarmed kid who he didn't know. The pretrial release of these irrelevant red herrings is a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool." - Benjamin Crump, the attorney forTrayvon Martin's family, in a statement after texts messages and pictures were released that show Martin with a gun and with marijuana. Zimmerman goes on trial next month.
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TheBritish soldier who was hacked to death Wednesday was identified as Lee Rigby, who held the rank of drummer. The bloodied men caught on camera after the attack are hospitalized and in police custody.
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February 22nd, 2012
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The truth about prescription medication addiction
Whenever I hand a prescription for pain pills to a patient, I tell them, "Remember not to drink any alcohol when taking these medications."
For years, we in the medical community thought that simple message was getting through. It turns out we were wrong.
Every 19 minutes someone dies because of misuse of prescription medications. Sometimes it is because they take too much. Many times it is because they forget or ignore the warning their doctor gave about combining the medications with alcohol. And tens of thousands of people die every year as a result.
As much attention as we pay to illicit drugs such as cocaine or heroin, the truth is prescription medications kill more people in this country than those illicit drugs combined. Perhaps it is a perception issue: "It came from a pharmacy, therefore, it must be safe."
They certainly can be safe, but they can also be incredibly addictive, with more than 1.9 million Americans hooked on prescription pain medications alone.
Researchers are racing to find something that can help, and there are a few promising things in development. A recent study, the first large-scale trial aimed at painkiller dependence, offered some hope.
Almost half of those addicted to painkillers - 49% - were able to reduce their drug abuse when taking Suboxone for at least 12 weeks. The drug works by reducing withdrawal symptoms and relieving cravings.
Unfortunately, the success rate dropped to less than 10% [8.6%] once patients stopped taking the drug. In the study, patients receiving intensive addiction counseling did no better than those who didn't.
Naltrexone – sold under the brand names Revia and Vivitrol, an injectable, long-acting formulation – has also been used for prescription painkiller abuse. But naltrexone only has the potential to work in patients who are already off the painkillers long enough that the drugs are out of their system.
Truth is most of the researchers I have interviewed over the last decade all seem to agree on one thing: addiction is a brain disease. The latest science shows how the dependence on drugs or alcohol can change the brain chemistry, altering pain and reward centers. As a result of this latest science, the idea of therapy alone to treat addiction is waning.
I should point out that millions of patients use prescription pain medications every year safely, without becoming addicted, and certainly without dying. For nearly 30,000 people a year though, they pay the price with their lives.
As a doctor, I will look my patients in the eye every time I hand them a prescription to tell them the concerns about the pills they will take. It won't just be a casual reminder about not taking the medications with alcohol, but a forceful warning backed up with scary but forceful statistics. I will remind them that they could become addicted, and they could die. That is our jobs as doctors, and it is one way to save thousands of lives.
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Inauguration 2013: Top 5 quotes from Obama's inaugural address
President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term on Monday. Below are highlights of his inaugural address and of today's inauguration events. Click here to read a transcript of Obama's address.
"My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together."
"We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity."
"We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law. We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully – not because we are naïve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear."
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."
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